Re: can't handle sections of type 1536

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 05:11:50 EST


On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:50:14 +0200,
Daniel Olsson <daniel@olsson.tm> wrote:
>I'm developing av module and sometimes I get the following error:
>
>insmod module.o
>module.o: can't handle sections of type 1536
>
>What does this error message means?

The object has an invalid section type in its header. ELF defines
these values, 1536 is not a valid type. Check how you build the
object, something is corrupting the module you are trying to load.

Figure 1-9. Section Types, sh_type
Name Value
SHT_NULL 0
SHT_PROGBITS 1
SHT_SYMTAB 2
SHT_STRTAB 3
SHT_RELA 4
SHT_HASH 5
SHT_DYNAMIC 6
SHT_NOTE 7
SHT_NOBITS 8
SHT_REL 9
SHT_SHLIB 10
SHT_DYNSYM 11
SHT_LOPROC 0x70000000
SHT_HIPROC 0x7fffffff
SHT_LOUSER 0x80000000
SHT_HIUSER 0xffffffff

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